Günther Panzram

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Günther Panzram (born December 23, 1923 in Artern ; † October 30, 2014 in Erfurt ) was a German internist and diabetologist . From 1965 to 1989 he was director of the Medical Polyclinic of the Medical Academy in Erfurt .

Live and act

Panzram was born in Artern as the son of a high school teacher and grew up in Erfurt . He studied medicine in Berlin and Würzburg from 1942 to 1944 , interrupted by military service. In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the US in Italy and worked for two years in an American hospital in Pisa . In 1948 he was able to continue his studies in Jena . In 1950 he passed the state examination and received his doctorate. In the same year he moved with Professor August Sundermann to the Erfurt Municipal Hospitals, where he completed his training as an internist. In 1960 he completed his habilitation at the Medical Academy in Erfurt, which has now been established. He specialized in diabetology, received a professorship in 1965 and in the same year became director of the newly created medical polyclinic of the MAE. At the beginning of the 1970s, Panzram was appointed "Consultant Diabetologist of the District Doctor". In 1989 he retired.

Panzram was a major contributor to the Erfurt Medical Academy, which was only founded in 1954, and the "Sundermann School" for internists in Erfurt. The medical outpatient clinic, headed by Panzram, also had bed wards. 13 habilitations ( doctorate B ), 48 doctorates ( doctorate A ), and numerous diploma theses that were binding during the GDR were supervised. Three professors and a number of chief physicians emerged from the clinic. Panzram's clinical and scientific work focused on diabetology. He created a network of diabetic counseling centers in the Erfurt district, researched the epidemiology of diabetes mellitus (with transverse and longitudinal studies) and was the discoverer of microalbuminuria as an early sign of the onset of diabetic nephropathy in the mid-1960s . Panzram wrote 170 scientific publications and gave over 300 lectures.

Panzram was married to his wife Gertrud. The marriage resulted in two daughters who both became doctors.

Panzram died in 2014 at the age of 91.

Honors

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 1976)
  • Honorary member of the Society for Internal Medicine Thuringia
  • Hellmut Mehnert Prize of the German Diabetes Union in 2000
  • Paul Langerhans plaque from the German Diabetes Society
  • Order of Merit of the Free State of Thuringia (2014)
  • Honorary Senator of the Medical Academy Erfurt
  • Bearer of the Order Banner of Labor

literature

  • Harald Schmechel and others: We congratulate the Nestor of Thuringian Diabetology, Professor Panzram, on his 80th birthday. In: Ärzteblatt Thuringia. Vol. 15 (2004), p. 43.
  • Harald Schmechel and others: On the 85th birthday of Professor Dr. Günther Panzram. In: Ärzteblatt Thuringia. Vol. 20 (2009), p. 118 f.
  • Harald Schmechel, Rainer Lundershausen: Professor Dr. Günther Panzram on his 90th birthday. In: Ärzteblatt Thuringia. Vol. 24 (2013), p. 681 f.
  • Harald Schmechel and others: Obituary for Professor Dr. Günther Panzram. In: Ärzteblatt Thuringia. Vol. 26 (2015), p. 42 f.
  • Thuringian Order of Merit for Professor Dr. Günther Panzram. In: Ärzteblatt Thuringia. Vol. 7-8 (2014), p. 404.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christel Dell, Danny Weber, Thomas Wilde: Deceased members and honorary patrons . List of members and honorary patrons who died between July 31, 2013 and June 30, 2015. In: Jörg Hacker (Ed.): German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . Structure and members. German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina eV, Halle (Saale) 2015, p. 347 ( leopoldina.org [PDF; accessed September 25, 2016]).
  2. ↑ Obituary on November 8, 2014 in Thüringische Landeszeitung and Thüringische Allgemeine
personal data
SURNAME Panzram, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist, diabetologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Artern
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 2014
Place of death Erfurt